This year Plasmatreat has been invited to share a stand with business partner SLE electronic GmbH at the parts2clean tradeshow. Both companies provide environmentally friendly surface cleaning solutions which can be used in combination, for instance during coil coating.
Whilst SLE uses high-pressure cleaning systems to remove coarse surface impurities from sheet metal, Plasmatreat's atmospheric pressure plasma system performs microfine cleaning immediately prior to coating.
Openair® plasma not only cleans the material surface, however; it simultaneously activates it, increasing the surface energy in targeted areas. In a second step and by adding a precursor into the plasma surfaces can also be functionally nano-coated.
"The dual effect of microfine cleaning and selective activation in a single step far outweighs the effectiveness of conventional systems", explains Joachim Schüßler, sales director of Plasmatreat GmbH. Pretreatment with Openair plasma significantly increases the adhesion capacity and wettability of the material surface in a precisely adjustable manner. This ensures long-time stable bonding of adhesives and coatings even under the most challenging conditions.
Whoever wants to discover the dual effect of the highly efficient pretreatment method is welcome to test his own component, at the booth of Plasmatreat. Visitors are invited to perform a test ink or contact angle measurement in a special test laboratory to determine the surface tension before and after plasma treatment.
parts2clean, June 24-26, 2014, Stuttgart, Germany
Hall 5, Booth D10/E05
//About Plasmatreat
Plasmatreat is the market leader in plasma jet technology. The company has technology centers in Germany (headquarters), the USA, Canada, China and Japan as well as subsidiaries and sales offices in more than 25 countries. Openair plasma technology, first patented in 1995, is now used in virtually all sectors of industry around the world. The jet-based systems are process secure, reproducible and they do not interrupt the production process. They can be used inline, i.e. they can be simply integrated into new or existing manufacturing lines.//